double bass neck repair by alex friedman, originally uploaded by sanbeiji.

Bass neck sans fingerboard, uploaded by fellow bass blogger Joe Lewis. The text reads:

This is how the neck of my bass looked before the repair. There’s tons of damage from screw holes and cracks. The goal was to save the elements of the flamed maple neck that matched the wood on the sides and back while strengthening the neck and increasing it’s diameter with a shim. The enlargement also shows the area of the scroll that was cut away when the old C extension was installed. In the final repair, you can hardly tell that it had a lobotomy…